Concrete Litanies

Concrete Litanies is a seven-minute audiovisual piece made in spring 2026. A litany is a prayer built on repetition — a line said by one voice and answered by many — and this one is made of concrete: recordings of struck, scraped and dropped hard objects, pipe, stone and metal, arranged into a slow responsorial rhythm that never becomes a beat, over which my voice intones short phrases and is answered by its own processed choir.

The image is the same material seen rather than heard: surfaces of poured concrete, cracks, rebar and water stains, filmed close and slowly, processed so that the textures pulse with the sound. It belongs to a group of pieces from that season — with Géographie de bouche and Voice Studies for Empty Rooms — in which I tried to write music for and about places that do not resonate: the acoustically dead, the poured, the sealed.

It is a prayer for buildings that cannot answer.